We announced the new native FIPS 140-3 module on the Go blog today!

FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings.

Well, it took over a year, but Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.

https://go.dev/blog/fips140

De humor hangt (lag) op straat. Klein detail in de stad.

#photography #fotografie #eindhoven

And this gets me thinking about a thing I have often heard from C programmers pushing back on the use of tools or language features that would improve the quality of their software, along the lines of “competent programmers don’t need these things, they should just get good”.

I am well past the point in my life where I engage with that sort of noise in any good faith, because if your answer to any perceived failing in a person is “just try harder”, you are either woefully inexperienced or a just a dick.

quality bug btw https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-07-10-an-openzfs-bug-and-the-humans-that-made-it/

New drawing: Hire bike

(Notes on this: https://open.substack.com/pub/diagramclub/p/047-a-hire-bike-blocking-the-pavement )